Below are the commands throguh we can manage Adaptech on the fly. RAID verifying/Rebuilding is important. Basic command line options to mange the hardware raid are as below,
AD : Adapter information only
LD : Logical device information only
LD# : Optionally display information about the specified logical device
PD : Physical device information only
AL : All information (optional)
New Adaptech RAID commands:
arcconf GETCONFIG 1 AD
arcconf GETCONFIG 1 LD
arcconf GETCONFIG 1 PD
arcconf GETCONFIG 1 AL
arcconf GETCONFIG 1 AL
1. To check rebuilding status
arcconf getconfig 1 al | grep Rebuilding
2. To set rebuilding priority :
arcconf setpriority 1 100 low
Usage: SETPRIORITY <Controller#> [Task ID#] <New Priority> [current]
Change a logical device current task execution priority.
Change a controller’s global background task priority.
Task ID# : Optional Task ID number to be changed. Can be found using GETSTATUS.
omit to set global task execution priority.
New Priority : The new priority ; LOW, MEDIUM, or HIGH
3. First to chek BBU is enabeld or not
arcconf GETCONFIG 1
4. To enable write cache on logical drive 0
arcconf SETCACHE 1 LOGICALDRIVE 0 wb
5. To enable write cache on logical drive 1
arcconf SETCACHE 1 LOGICALDRIVE 1 wb
6. To check the status.
arcconf GETCONFIG 1
7. To enable write cache witn BBU support
arcconf setcache 1 logicaldrive 0 wbb
8. To check rebuilding status
arcconf getstatus 1